This 20-foot-tall No. 2 pencil was once a beloved 180-year-old oak tree. Now it’s the star of a bizarrely wholesome ritual.

More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a ...

Chris Stapleton’s “All American Road Show” with Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, Parker McCollum, Nikki Lane, and more, depending on the date, is set to play two back-to-back nights in Grand ...

Every year in June, a quiet Minneapolis neighbourhood near Lake of the Isles turns into the site of one of America’s most eccentric public rituals: the sharpening of a 6-metre-tall No. 2 pencil. And ...

Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic ...

The giant pencil, known as LOTI Pencil, will get its fourth annual sharpening on Saturday afternoon. The event kicks off another Minneapolis summer filled with outdoor art festivals and (hopefully ...

Like a real pencil, this one is ephemeral. Every year they sharpen it, it gets a bit shorter. They have taken anywhere from 3 to 10 inches (8 to 25 centimeters) off a year. They haven’t decided how ...

The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall) pencil was sculpted out of a mammoth oak tree at the home of John and Amy Higgins. ... They are OK knowing that they could reduce it to a stub one day.

Like a real pencil, this one is ephemeral. Every year they sharpen it, it gets a bit shorter. They have taken anywhere from 3 to 10 inches (8 to 25 centimeters) off a year. They haven’t decided how ...

The 20-feet-tall pencil was sculpted out of a mammoth oak ... They haven't decided how much to shave off this year. They are OK knowing that they could reduce it to a stub one day. ...

A 20-foot-tall pencil sculpted out of a mammoth oak tree in Minneapolis gets sharpened each year for an annual ritual. ... They’re OK knowing that they could reduce it to a stub one day.